MULTIPLE-EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHS
ROME
Fusione: Ponte Sant’Angelo 5C, 2022-23, oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper, 44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
The multiple exposure photographs, are made in Italian museums, archaeological sites, gardens and/or parks from Campania to Tuscany and sometimes fused with photographs of my gardens Santa Fe, New Mexico and Los Angeles or gardens I encounter wherever I travel. The photographs are developed, processed and edited in Photoshop, then digitally layered with photographs of my paintings in progress. Once the images are printed I apply successive thin washes of oil paint and alkyd resin to render the images more resonant.
Within this body of work I am simultaneously pursing two parallel conceptual themes: one based on challenging irrelevant narratives of the past, the other celebrating the essential relevance of the primal human connection with nature. Both bodies of work converge to mirror and embody a flourishing landscape garnered from history, translating the vital implications of an accumulated past united with a concerned present to beckon and sustain an aware and diverse future.
With the digital layering process I am fusing the past with the present in an attempt to story forth and emphasize what I feel is relevant from our collective histories and simultaneously disrupt, dissolve and obscure those past ideologies that have zero relevance for 21st century humanity. These images culminate in resonant echoes of the past integrated with longing the essential role of mythologies and nature in our lives. They are disruptive narratives that speak of a transformed and altered world and a shifting paradigm suffused in an illuminated optimism implying an architecture of collective history and memory; a mirage of an archaic oasis in which we can revel.
The photographs are printed using archival pigment inks on Canson Infinity Platine Rag paper at 40 x 40 inches on 44 x 44 inch paper.
Multiple-exposure photographs from Rome, Italy
Roma IID, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma IVB, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Ponte Sant’Angelo IXC, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Ponte Sant’Angelo VC, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Diocleziano IC, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Diocleziano VIB, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Ponte Sant’Angelo Graffito VIC, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Fusione: Napoli MANN 22.05.09.IC, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Ponte Sant’Angelo IB, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Ponte Sant’Angelo IIC, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Ponte Sant’Angelo Graffito IIIB, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Ponte Sant’Angelo Graffito IIB, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Ponte Sant’Angelo IIIB, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Ponte Sant’Angelo Graffito ID, 2022-23
oil and alkyd resin on archival pigment print on Canson Infinity Platine Fiber Rag paper
44 x 44 inches / 111.75 x 111.75 cm
Roma Diocleziano IC, 2022-23, (detail)
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